Chapter 1
England, Wiltshire, Lacock
Monday, October 31, 1988
9:00 p.m.
The squeak of the barn door rolling down the metal rail cut through the silence of the night air. It wasn’t as heavy as Eva May Camden remembered, but then again, her fondest memories of the barn were from a few years ago when she was on the cusp of adolescence.
“Quiet, or we’re going to get caught,” her sixteen-year-old cousin Brenda said as she crept past Eva and went straight to the light switches, flipped one of them on, then lit her cigarette.
“I think we’re old enough to be in the barn after dark.” Eva’s feet crunched the dead leaves scattered over the dirt floor of the barn as she pushed the door closed to block the biting cold wind. Still, it slammed against the wall, causing the aging building to moan an
